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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Salesforce.com offers hosted accounting software

Accounting company Coda and on-demand specialist Salesforce.com claim to have come up with a way for companies to handle their accounting software without having to pay for a full-scale application.

Coda@2Go offers a full-scale accounting software system available through the Force.com, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) model running on Salesforce.com, the companies claim. Coda@2Go will be officially launched on Wednesday at the Dreamforce Europe '08 conference in London.

This tie-up allows customers to run Coda's financial software without having to go to the expense of buying a complete application, according to Coda's chief executive, Jeremy Roche. "Our customers can get up and running with our software very easily by doing this," he said.

The result is a less costly entry price for companies wanting to put their users on the system. To use a full set of Coda financial software costs between £65 and £75 per user per month, according to Roche. But sub-sets of the full package will be made available in the future priced accordingly. "As we get up and running with this the plan is that we will make different parts of the accounting suite available for users who do not want all the features," Roche said. "That will obviously cost less."